Current media comments towards us

[Pat McMahon]

Fair play to Henry Winter in The Telegraph (!), giving the supporters a good bit of praise.

The only innocents in this Villa blame game are the supporters.

What did the fans want when the season started? Positive football, a push for the top 10, a cup run or two to stir some dreams, players to show pride in the shirt and, soon, for serial maladies such as an inability to defend crosses to be addressed by Lambert and his coaches. Villa fans are not asking for titles or Champions League places. They just want their team to be respected.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/9829476/Aston-Villa-fans-showing-their-quality-by-standing-by-Paul-Lambert-during-difficult-times.html

Des,

I know it is not always a popular view on here, but I honestly think Winter gets what we are about as a club.

That is a fair piece from a fan's perspective

[E I Adio]

Not so sure.

"They want Lambert to succeed, partly because he replaced Alex McLeish, who was never embraced because of his Birmingham City connections."

[Risso]

Not so sure.

"They want Lambert to succeed, partly because he replaced Alex McLeish, who was never embraced because of his Birmingham City connections."

He performed a lot better than Lambert has, but got 10 times more stick.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Fair play to Henry Winter in The Telegraph (!), giving the supporters a good bit of praise.

The only innocents in this Villa blame game are the supporters.

What did the fans want when the season started? Positive football, a push for the top 10, a cup run or two to stir some dreams, players to show pride in the shirt and, soon, for serial maladies such as an inability to defend crosses to be addressed by Lambert and his coaches. Villa fans are not asking for titles or Champions League places. They just want their team to be respected.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/9829476/Aston-Villa-fans-showing-their-quality-by-standing-by-Paul-Lambert-during-difficult-times.html

Decent article. My only complaint is he is acting like the Newcastle game is a clash of similar clubs. It isnt. Newcastle have strengthened an already decent team which had been ravaged by injuries but now coming back on line. Newcastle will be just fine.

[mike]

Not so sure.

"They want Lambert to succeed, partly because he replaced Alex McLeish, who was never embraced because of his Birmingham City connections."

He performed a lot better than Lambert has, but got 10 times more stick.

Yes, last season I always dismissed the suggestion that abuse of McLeish was based on his last club. Having seen how differently Lambert has been treated I am not so sure. Doesn't mean TSM wasn't a shit manager.

[Californian Villain]

Of all the stuff in that article....and it's back to debating TSM. Again

[LeeB]

Not so sure.

"They want Lambert to succeed, partly because he replaced Alex McLeish, who was never embraced because of his Birmingham City connections."

He performed a lot better than Lambert has, but got 10 times more stick.

No he did not.

[pauliewalnuts]

We might be failing to do it enough, but at least Lambert is a manager who believes in attacking football.

McLesh may have had a few more points on the board but his negative nonsense was humiliating and not worthy of Aston Villa.

And yes yada yada neither is being shit this season either, we can all see how shit we are, nobody is in denial about that, but I'd rather a manager who at least *tried*

[LeeB]

We might be failing to do it enough, but at least Lambert is a manager who believes in attacking football.

McLesh may have had a few more points on the board but his negative nonsense was humiliating and not worthy of Aston Villa.

And yes yada yada neither is being shit this season either, we can all see how shit we are, nobody is in denial about that, but I'd rather a manager who at least *tried*

Someone on here coined the phrase "defensive nihilism" last week, which sums him up perfectly.

[Risso]

Only if you don't know what nihilism means.

[LeeB]

Only if you don't know what nihilism means.

That's both refreshingly honest and humble of you.

[Risso]

Only if you don't know what nihilism means.

That's both refreshingly honest and humble of you.

Hmmm, 'you' appears to be another word you're struggling with.

[Nev]

Kudos to Winter for not going down the "you moaned about that last shit manager so you can't moan about this one" road.

[peter w]

Only if you don't know what nihilism means.

Well I've got a kind of Villa nihilism right now. Strangely, before we were this shit I could only watch Villa and had no interest in watching other football. Now I can sit through other games and just enjoy them as a neutral.

[damon loves JT]

Only if you don't know what nihilism means.

Well I've got a kind of Villa nihilism right now. Strangely, before we were this shit I could only watch Villa and had no interest in watching other football. Now I can sit through other games and just enjoy them as a neutral.

Don't go into the light, peter